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| Curious about cartridges. I agree with Mijo; the first thing that crossed my mind when I read your OP is that the Miyajima might sound even better in a higher effective mass tonearm. Fortunately, it’s easy to increase the effective mass of the tonearm, whereas there is ver... | |
| Don't buy Allnic H1201 phono stage new. By now one can probably get a great deal on a used 1202, and Mr Park of Allnic may be dreaming of the inevitable 1203. | |
| SUPER Staticy Record??? Because "brushing, washing, vacuuming, and brushing again" does not per se get rid of static charge. Those processes can just as well charge up an LP as discharge it, especially that last step.... "brushing". Cleaning and static charge dissipati... | |
| Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; NOS versus brand new. Typically, in a CDP, tubes are used as cathode followers at the output of the CDP. A cathode follower does not add any gain to the signal voltage and therefore is fairly neutral in its sonic signature. If done well, it can be completely neutral.... | |
| Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; NOS versus brand new. While I agree that "tube rolling" can make an audible improvement in SQ, I think of it as something one can do if one has no further understanding of electronics or skills on the workbench, the use of which can effect much bigger and more permanen... | |
| New AT cartridge thoughts/question In re-reading Miller Carbon's post, I see now that his idea is not really different from my experience of the ART7. | |
| New AT cartridge thoughts/question I own an Audio Technica ART7 cartridge that I purchased new. At first, I did find it to be lean or clinical sounding, although from the start it was a champ at revealing detail and inner musical voices, as well as having a very articulate bass. Ne... | |
| Stylus stuck in groove Good idea. Now if and when I can bring myself to care, I will try your method. I have no LPs that "repeat" due to LP dirt or damage. Any time that happens, the LP goes into the garbage unless cleaning it repairs the problem. When it's only a l... | |
| Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; NOS versus brand new. Guys used to buy obsolete Tektronix oscilloscopes, in order to harvest from them the Telefunken 6922s, for use in their audio systems. I suppose they are all gone by now. In my one piece of gear that uses 6922s, I have been very happy with Siemens... | |
| Stylus stuck in groove You guys must have really good eyes. On my LPs that have such glitches, I cannot recall ever having been able to see the problem with my naked eye. Nor did I bother to pursue the issue much further. It only affects a few of my favorite LPs, is usu... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? The thing about capacitors in speaker crossovers is that they generally operate without a bias voltage across them. Thus, (1) they may take a very long time to "break in", if you believe in that sort of thing, and (2) it is not advisable to predi... | |
| Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; NOS versus brand new. Many years ago I compared several brands of 12AT7 type tubes. To my surprise, by far the best sounding was a Chinese made variant sold to me by Billington in the UK. Since Billington is now out of business, I don’t know where I would get more of t... | |
| Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; NOS versus brand new. To anyone's knowledge, are there counterfit TFKs with the diamond stamped in the glass on the bottom of the tube, or can one assume that if the diamond shape is there, we have a genuine TFK? Seems to me by now someone must have copied it, so you ... | |
| Early Faint "Phantom" Turntable/Vinyl Signal??? In this case you got the straight poop, but when it comes to the Internet, trust but verify. | |
| K&K Phono Preamp questions. If the polarity switch is on the rear panel next to the IEC input for the AC cord, then I might imagine it is for input AC polarity. However, it is also true that the balanced circuit in at least many of the K&K phono stages permits switching ... |